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Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon March 5, 2005 Chemawa students prepare for change Head Start taking applications Head Start is taking applications for the Head Start 2005 06 school year. Head Start is offering 3- to 4-ycar-olds a pre school experience. Head Start provides children with activi ties to grow mentally, socially, emotionally and physically, as well as giving them kindergarten readiness. For registration, please be prepared to present the follow ing: verification of income, birth certificate or tribal letter, physical and immunization papers, custody or placement pa pers. We will need all of the paperwork in before the child is selected for the school year. For information: Jodi Orr or Shirelle Thomas, 553-3242. (AP) - After four years of federal education reforms, ma jor changes are coming to the Chemawa Indian Boarding School in Salem. Next year, the school's focus will shift to becoming a college preparatory academy, the latest makeover in a 125-year history of shifting mission statements. Chemawa administrators are embarking on the latest change without a guarantee of new fed eral money. "We'll still teach every kid that walks in our door," said super visor Larry Bycrs. "We'll hold them to a higher commitment of learning." The change is just the most recent for the school, which has gone from mandated assimila tion of Indian children in 1880 to providing an alternative edu cation in 2005. Considered a "failing" school under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Chemawa will at tempt to create a "leadership academy" in the next several years. The school plans to lengthen the academic day and require study hours in the evenings. Chemawa will also seek more partnerships with local community and four-year col leges to create dual-credit classes and help ease students' transi tions. But the school intends to re main a place for students who cannot thrive in traditional high schools. Pqge 2 Horse club hosting dance to raise funds The Rockin' 4-H Club of Warm Springs, along with the Riders of the Confederated Tribes, both youth equestrian clubs from Warm Springs, will host a dance this Friday, March 4, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Proceeds go toward helping send 12 riders from the clubs on a trip to Southern California March 16 to 21. While on the trip, the clubs will participate in a parade in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. A disc jockey will play dance music, and pizza and fry bread will be sold, as will Pepsi drinks. Admission is $4. The group will camp out at the O'Niel Ranch during the trip, and Methodist churches in the "area will help provide meals to the group. Chris Buller, the Rockin' 4-H leader, is youth pastor at the United Methodist Church of Madras. The Los Angeles County Fire Department is also participating in the group's outing in South ern California, in helping arrange meals, arrange logistics, and, in providing the San Juan Capistrano fire hall, giving the group from Warm Springs what he called a "safe spot" as a base during parade and festivities. To participate in the trip, the students had to take part in group activities, maintain a 2.0 . grade-point average in school, and fulfill a behavior contract, both at school and at home, Buller said. "We'd like to do something like this every year," Buller, who started the Rockin' 4-H Club in April last year, said. His group has rode in two pa rades since its beginning, Pi-Ume-Sha in Warm Springs and at the July 4 parade in Madras last year. Buller said he has been work ing to arrange for a chaplain from U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to bring Aus tin Smith, Jr., of Warm Springs, who is currently stationed at the base, to join the Warm Springs group for breakfast and either walk or ride in the parade. Buller said he had been to the parade in San Juan Capistrano before, and that his wife knows people involved in the parade's organization. Through talking with different people, Buller got in touch with Glenn Laub, fire captain of the Los Angeles Fire Department, and Dr. Peter Czuleger, an emergency room physician and horse enthusiast. Czuleger's home is on the gated Three Arch Bay near La guna Beach, and, Buller said, the doctor has provided for the group from Warm Springs to meet a group of kids from the area for some fun in a beach where scenes from movies have been shot. "We wanted, to make it a whole Southern California ex perience for the kids," Buller said. Youth invited to submit artwork for contest The Warm Springs Hous ing Authority is seeking art work from youth of the local community. The coloring con test, on the theme of fire pre vention, is in conjunction with Amerind. There will be prizes for the poster winners. There are three divisions: K-third grade; fourth through sixth; and sev enth and eighth. Artwork can be submitted to the Housing office at 1238 Veterans Way. Deadline is April 22. Paper size: 8 and half by eleven inches. Paper is available at the Housing office. Any questions, call Hous ing at 553-3250, or stop by. "It's a chance for the kids to meet a lot of different people who have a passion for horses," Buller said. He said he also wanted the group to meet people who he said "care about youth," no matter where they come from. In turn, Buller said people outside the reservation have been encouraged by the efforts of the club. "A lot of people have been touched by the reservation and the youth," he said. "There are a lot of people who care about them." Jason Smith, manager of the Confederated Tribes' Range and Agricultural Department and a noted local horseman, has of fered to transport the club's horses to Southern California, and Butch David, the tribal com munity liaison at Jefferson County Middle School and a horseman, is also making the trip south. While the group is in Southern California, the group will auction off the horses at O'Niel Ranch it rides to good homes. Buttons & Bolts Clothing fabric, and quilt fabric VjYD'i!1.' n . ' ; L 1 March Madness Sale - 15 off! y &&tc& and 'CLifoS 125 SE D Street Madras, OR 97741 475-0440 Hours: Tues thru Friday 9-6 Saturday 9-5 Closed Sun. and Mon. OFFICE NOW OPEN THRU LUNCH CALL 475-6663 "Se habla espafiol" AUTOMOTIVE & TOWING "Done Right The First Time" i AM 11 13 111 IHimHMi'H ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lllill fcl r I ttunaml What this means to you... We can take care of all your Automotive Repair & Maintenance Needs! 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